Geelong Greens Convenor, Bruce Lindsay, today announced he will run as a candidate in the Deakin Ward by-election for the City of Greater Geelong Council, on a platform of planning reform, Council activism and better governance.

Mr Lindsay said: ‘I work out at the Deakin University campus at Waurn Ponds. I feel a part of the area. This by-election is also about issues that effect Geelong and the Bellarine as a whole.’

‘Three areas of local government I want to see overhauled: